Are you ready to engage learners like never before? Student engagement is the key to success for every teacher, and this is your engagement strategy blueprint.
Boring lessons and assignments will disappear forever when you learn to build student avatars, banish blandness, ride the podcast tide, and become a total engagement guru.
Many students are bored and disengaged Teachers are handcuffed by outdated textbooks, standardized curriculum, and disinterested students. What if you could solve these problems immediately and excite even your most reluctant learner daily? 
Read it Today and Engage tomorrow! 33-year veteran teacher, author, presenter, and engagement guru James Alan Sturtevant makes it easy, with incredible teacher tips and tools for both the veteran and student teacher--50 engagement tools that you can begin using right now, with no special training or boring professional development.
Easily rebrand your class and connect with all students Are you the teacher students "hate"? Do kids groan when they walk into your classroom? Engaging learners is all about connecting and making education fun. With Sturtevant's education tips and creative teaching tools, students will rebrand you and your class as their favorites. Best of all, they'll engage with every lesson you teach, every single day!
50 Tips and Tools Unlike other education books that weigh you down with archaic research and impossible-to-implement strategies, Hacking Engagement, the 7th book in the popular Hack Learning Series, provides 50 unique, exciting, and actionable tips and tools that you can apply right now. And there's something here for every teacher--no matter what grade or subject you teach. Try one of these amazing engagement strategies tomorrow:
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<li>Engage the Enraged</li>
<li>Create Celebrity Couple Nicknames</li>
<li>Hash out a Hashtag</li>
<li>Empower Students to Help You Uncover Your Biases</li>
<li>Avoid the Great War on Yoga Pants</li>
<li>Let Your Freak Flag Fly</li>
<li>Become a Proponent of the Exponent</li>
<li>Trade Blah, Blah, Blah for Zen</li>
<li>Transform Your Class into a Focus Group</li>
</ol>
Commit to Engagement Try at least one tip or tool now and witness an amazing transformation in your classroom and school.
Are you ready to engage? Scroll up and grab your copy of Hacking Engagement now.

Hacking Engagement: 50 Tips & Tools To Engage Teachers and Learners Daily (Hack Learning Series)

Education & Teaching

Sturtevant, James Alan

Schools & Teaching

Times 10 Publications

Now, you can engage every single learner every single day33-year veteran classroom teacher, James Alan Sturtevant, wowed teachers with the original Hacking Engagement, which contained 50 Tips and Tools to Engage Teachers and Learners Daily. Those educators and students got better, but they craved more. So, the veteran classroom teacher and wildly popular student engager Sturtevant is Hacking Engagement Again!Fifty Teacher Tips that make students love your classThe first step to real academic achievement is inspiring a love of learning, and the best way to accomplish this is to get students to love your class and your teaching. But rolling out worksheets and multiple-choice quizzes is a recipe for failure, so how do you engage students without these traditional tools?The answer is surprisingly simple: Dig into Hacking Engagement Again and grab 50 tools and strategies, good for any class on any day, and watch your students light up.Hacks that make students love your class:Feng Shui Your StudentsFascinate with the First FiveGive Students Virtually No InstructionsApply the You Y’all We TemplateDangle a DilemmaInspire 100% Participation in Your Next Class DiscussionShove Your Next Class Discussion On to the TwitterspherePull Up a Philosophical ChairMorph Student IdentitiesDetonate the Boring Guest Speaker TemplateTeleport Your Students Back to the 1970sTransform Tedious Test ReviewTease Out a Taskmaster with Google CalendarEncourage Students to Sneak Out of Your RoomFind the Elusive SparkIssue the 1,000 Pushup ChallengeReboot with KahootNavigate the Rolling Seas of Controversial TopicsRebel Against the Bell ... and 31 more teacher tips and strategies that will engage your students like never before and make them love you and your classExperts rave about Hacking Engagement Again"Hacking Engagement Again provides readers with a ton of ideas, strategies, and resources that move students from on-task to engaged. Looking to tap into student's use of smartphones in a classroom activity? This book is for you. Do you want to leverage the power of Twitter and Socratic Seminar to move conversations from good to great? This book is for you. James Alan Sturtevant provides a well thought out game plan for highly engaging learning experiences in both the physical and virtual worlds."-Brad Currie, 2017 NASSP National Assistant Principal of the Year"Jim Sturtevant is one of my all-time favorite educators. He is humble, honest, excited about learning, and really, really funny. This book is packed with ideas that can be implemented right away: Some creatively weave technology into instruction, others are just plain creative, and all of them are smart. Plus, the QR codes take the reader to so many more fantastic resources. With this book in hand, every teacher will find ways to freshen up their teaching and make it fun again!"-Jennifer Gonzalez, Bestselling author, speaker, and CEO at CultOfPedagogy.com"Jim Sturtevant has engaged us again with 50 more ways to engage learners. Each catchy hack comes equipped with easy to implement instructions for improving student engagement in all classes. Do yourself a favor and pick up this book. Your kids deserve it!"-Starr Sackstein, Teacher, bestselling author, keynote speakerAre you ready for every student to love your class? Start Hacking Engagement Again, now!

Hacking Engagement Again: 50 Teacher Tools That Will Make Students Love Your Class (Hack Learning Series)

Demonstrates how to build a strong student-teacher connection in the classroom. 
A secure and trusting relationship between teacher and students is at the heart of positive discipline and a safe, productive classroom. The positive effects of building teacher-student relationships impact all aspects of classroom life. Students come to class and like to be there, they are more engaged in learning, they retain more of what they learn, and their creativity is unleashed. There are fewer behavior issues, lower dropout rates, and more harmony between class members. With humor, practical action steps for the teacher, and a few wacky stories, Jim Sturtevant shows all educators how to connect with students and operate a classroom in ways that show acceptance, breed mutual respect, handle and reduce conflict, build self-esteem, support students in trouble, and add peace and enjoyment.

You've Gotta Connect: Building Relationships That Lead to Engaged Students, Productive Classrooms, and Higher Achievement

Incentive Publications

What does it mean to teach in magenta? Magenta is bold, it's vibrant, and the color holds noble qualities. Teaching in Magenta means creating magnificent days. It's a refreshing approach to teaching that puts your joy and well-being first so you can share those attributes with your students. Veteran teacher and author James Sturtevant shares 100 paths for living and teaching in an authentic, enthusiastic, and relevant way. Take a few minutes each day to read a path or two, and gain energy and ideas that you can put into action the same day. The book includes inspiring sketches, and the paths are divided into five qualities of well-being: <ul> <li>Compassion</li> <li>Optimism</li> <li>Balance</li> <li>Adaptability</li> <li>Contentment</li> </ul> Find renewed joy in teaching, and soon your students and colleagues will notice how refreshingly magenta you have become.

Teaching in Magenta: 100 Paths to Joy and Well-being for You and Your Students

Make distracted students a thing of the past 
If you and your students aren’t approaching your class each day with excitement for the new ideas and learning surprises you’re about to experience, then it’s time to hack your student engagement. 
Four-decade classroom teacher James Sturtevant knows how to engage learners, and he’s sharing his best strategies on how to make kids love learning. Sturtevant packed previous student engagement books with 100 practical, right-now strategies to engage all learners, and now he’s back with 50 new ways to make the classroom fun for everyone--teachers and school leaders included. 
Even if you've seen other books about how to teach better, Even More Hacking Engagement focuses on instructional and rapport-building hacks that automatically make all educators better. In the book, you’ll learn how to: Deputize Devil’s Advocates Give the Gift of GIFs Conduct a negative thought experiment Flip a podcast Promote brand ambassadors Amplify empathy Embark on a formative journey Generate leads Manifest a vision Find the flow And 40 more impactful strategies to make learning fun for all students You can implement these tips and tools starting tomorrow! When you apply Sturtevant’s strategies, your class will become the one students don’t want to miss. It’s time to engage. Scroll up and buy Even More Hacking Engagement today.

Even More Hacking Engagement: 50 New Ways to Make Learning Fun for All Students (Hack Learning Series)

You don't need to move to a blue zone to live the centenarian life. 
Are you wondering if your best years are behind you? Are you tired, listless, overweight, depressed, lonely, or uninspired?\nIt may be time for change, and change can be surprisingly easy at any age. 
Hacking Life After 50 shares 10 strategies you can use today to live a happy, healthy, joy-filled life after 50 and, hopefully, to 100 and beyond. 
Researchers, after-50s Club members, and health and fitness practitioners Sturtevant and Barnes show you how to: Create purpose in life’s Act II Build momentum regardless of age Master meal planning without sacrificing the foods you love Reclaim muscle, prevent injuries, and prolong functional movement Discover simple acts that promote healthy, happy living Sleep better than ever, improving cellular health and longevity Dabble in the exciting unknown Thrive now, tomorrow, and forever\nLearn how to keep Father Time on the run and make after-50s life your best life. Read Hacking Life After 50 and start your journey today.

Hacking Life After 50: 10 Ways to Beat Father Time and Live a Long, Healthy, Joy-Filled Life (Hack Learning Life)

Barnes, Mark

Parenting & Relationships

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